Trust Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Essays

Author: Raquel Barradas de Freitas; Sergio Lo Iacono
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781509935253

Published In: December 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781509955060

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This book examines the role of trust in public life. It seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of certain fundamental concepts in political and legal theory, such as the concepts of authority, power, social practice, the rule of law, and justice by furnishing and sharpening our concepts of trust and trustworthiness.

Bringing together contributors from across the social, cognitive, historical, and political sciences, to the book opens up inquiries into central concepts in legal theory as well as new approaches and methodologies. The interdisciplinary contributions analyse the notions of trust, trustworthiness, and distrust and apply them to address a variety of problems and questions.

Foreword

Timothy Endicott, University of Oxford, UK

1. Introduction: The Virtue of Trust1

Raquel Barradas de Freitas, University of Oxford, UK

PART I. FORMALISING TRUST

2. Clearing the Jungle: Conceptualising Trust and Trustworthiness

Paul C Bauer, Manheim Centre for European Social Research, Germany

3. Who are We Trusting? A Category-Based Formalisation of Trust

Sergio Lo Iacono, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and Martina Testori, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

4. The Double-Edged Sword of Cooperation: The Vulnerability of Trusting and Trustworthy Behaviour

Burak Sonmez, London School of Economics, UK

PART II. THE VALUE OF TRUST